Long term miscarriage-related hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Evidence from a United Kingdom population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Miscarriages affect up to a fifth of all pregnancies and are associated with substantial psychological morbidity. However, their relationship with cardiometabolic risk factors is not well known. Therefore, in this study we aimed to estimate the burden of cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2) and hypertension in women with miscarriage compared to women without a record of miscarriage.

Methods

A population-based retrospective cohort study was conducted using IVQIA Medical Research Data UK (IMRD-UK) between January 1995 and May 2016, an anonymised electronic health records database that is representative of the UK population. A total of 86,509, 16-50-year-old women with a record of miscarriage (exposed group) were matched by age, smoki

SUBMITTER: Okoth K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782476 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature